For The Love Of Port

9/24/08 by the glass from the bar at the Pestana Porto

Ruby brown - darker than expected.
Floral and fruity nose, quite pleasant
Faint hints of cinnamon and wood smoke in the mouth, followed by some vanilla.
A somewhat sharper finish, but that's relative. Barely detectable grape skin, eventual apples and caramel.

Glenn,

From what you tasted, would you say the bottle had been open long?

Your opinion counts and we'd trust you fully if you'd choose to put a score on your notes. You are ready!

I don't think that this bottle had been open all that long - if I remember correctly the bartender told us that the Graham's 30-yr old was one of their more popular Ports. There was more than half the bottle left, so if it sells reasonably quickly I suspect it hadn't been open for more than a week.

It was a tough call between this and the Romariz for 2nd place... I'd probably go with the Grahams simply based on bang-for-your-buck. The 1963 Romariz Colheita was more expensive, but not any more pleasing to me.